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LuckyCharms

(23,320 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:31 AM Yesterday

This is all too much for me.

I can't anymore...

I just can't...

Do you understand how difficult it is for me, after typing out a long post, to go back and correct every time I typed "i" instead of the word "I"? For example, correcting "i went to the store" corrected to "I went to the store".

And sometimes I have to make this correction 5 or 6 times! Do you have any idea how much of my day that eats up?

How do people deal with this problem? How do you get through this? Therapy?

Maybe that's the answer...therapy.

I just can't bear this burden anymore.

No person should be subject to this kind of stress.

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This is all too much for me. (Original Post) LuckyCharms Yesterday OP
Mine is my fat thumbs typing "i" instead of "o" EverHopeful Yesterday #1
I'm so sorry... LuckyCharms Yesterday #3
Remember, if you go together Marthe48 Yesterday #11
Good thing! LuckyCharms Yesterday #13
You could just use "myself". .No correction needed! niyad Yesterday #2
Myself just went to the store. LuckyCharms Yesterday #5
Yourself is most welcome! niyad Yesterday #9
Me too! Me welcome! LuckyCharms Yesterday #10
You could refer to yourself as Lucky Marthe48 Yesterday #12
LMAO! LuckyCharms Yesterday #14
Yes, third person is good. Or the royal "we" ! niyad Yesterday #15
My friend used the royal we Marthe48 Yesterday #16
One may also simply use "one". niyad Yesterday #21
Simple solution. For example Pobeka Yesterday #4
Thank you! LuckyCharms Yesterday #6
Me welcome :-D Pobeka Yesterday #7
LOL LuckyCharms Yesterday #8
it just makes you a poet like e.e.cummings who wrote as he pleased. erronis Yesterday #17
errrrmmm. .Do not forget that he was confined at St. Elizabeth's! niyad Yesterday #22
You'll be fine after you read a little e.e. cummings. Harker Yesterday #18
That was his pen name. LuckyCharms Yesterday #19
His partner i.b. gowings is fun, too. Harker Yesterday #20
And his renowned urologist... LuckyCharms Yesterday #23
I'm your age, and now I'm giggling about Seymour Butz. Harker Yesterday #24
Have you ever read the book titled... LuckyCharms Yesterday #25
I thought I'd heard them all. Harker Yesterday #26
"Falling Trees" by Tim Burr. LuckyCharms Yesterday #27
"The Industrial Revolution" by Otto Mattick. LuckyCharms Yesterday #28
"Fifty Yards to the Outhouse by Willy Makit, Forward by Betty Wont. LuckyCharms Yesterday #31
I have all day, Lucky. Harker Yesterday #33
I dealt with the same problem. lark Yesterday #29
Google "shift key." Sneederbunk Yesterday #30
OK, I just Googled it. LuckyCharms Yesterday #32
i prefer being shiftless. WestMichRad Yesterday #34

EverHopeful

(717 posts)
1. Mine is my fat thumbs typing "i" instead of "o"
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:37 AM
Yesterday

I've asked for patience and forgiveness from everyone I text with and they have agreed to interpret my txts with "o" instead of "i" if it makes more sense that way

LuckyCharms

(23,320 posts)
3. I'm so sorry...
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:38 AM
Yesterday

Would you like to go to therapy with me?

Maybe if we go as a package deal, we can get a discount!

Marthe48

(23,629 posts)
12. You could refer to yourself as Lucky
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:10 AM
Yesterday

(Seinfeld episode, Jimmy)

Lucky went to the store. What did Lucky get?


LuckyCharms

(23,320 posts)
14. LMAO!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:16 AM
Yesterday

Marthe, when I can't remember someone's name, I call them Jimmy.

Man or woman. They are Jimmy until I remember their name.

A guy I used to work with called everyone "Fishlips".

Marthe48

(23,629 posts)
16. My friend used the royal we
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:48 AM
Yesterday

She lived on her own, so for a long time, I thought she had company whenever we talked


Pobeka

(5,017 posts)
4. Simple solution. For example
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:38 AM
Yesterday

Me can't anymore...
Me just can't...

Do you understand how difficult it is for me, after typing out a long post, to go back and correct every time me typed "i" instead of the word "I"? For example, correcting "i went to the store" corrected to "I went to the store".

And sometimes me have to make this correction 5 or 6 times! Do you have any idea how much of my day that eats up?

How do people deal with this problem? How do you get through this? Therapy?

Maybe that's the answer...therapy.

Me just can't bear this burden anymore.

No person should be subject to this kind of stress.
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Now the stress has been transferred to the people who can't stand bad grammar!

niyad

(134,725 posts)
22. errrrmmm. .Do not forget that he was confined at St. Elizabeth's!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:47 AM
Yesterday

We do not want that happening to LC!!!

lark

(26,133 posts)
29. I dealt with the same problem.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:04 PM
Yesterday

Only mine was misspelling and adn - so annoying. I just made it a habit to always stop for a second when needinng to use the word and think a n d. After bit of doing that, the issue disappeared. Guess I retrained my fingers?

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